The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Quotes

“Eh bien! I no see not that that frog has nothing of better than another.”
― Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

“I am willing to be a literary thief if it has so been ordained; I am even willing to be caught robbing the ancient dead alongside of Hopkinson Smith, for he is my friend and a good fellow, and I think would be as honest as any one if he could do it without occasioning remark; but I am not willing to antedate his crimes by fifteen hundred years. I must ask you to knock off part of that.”
― Mark Twain, The Jumping Frog

“Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far”
― Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Simplified for Modern Readers